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31/M/Ondangwa/ Namibia instagram mathewnangolo / https://www.instagram.com/switchofffff/profilec / Writing industry is my play background / writing is my therapy / My pen speak louder than my own voice / pen on and welcome to Mathew's yard
I did not love you as you were, I loved you as a promise. As a future that spoke softly to my wounds and told me I would finally be enough. I loved the idea of waking up chosen, of being looked at without measurement, without silent calculations of what I lacked or what another man might already have. When you left, you did not just leave me you shattered the mirror I used to see myself. And in the broken glass, I started mistaking absence for failure. They say money changes things. Maybe it does. But what it would have changed most is not your heart it is how loud I could have proven my worth to someone who never learned to wait while I was becoming. You touched another body, and something inside me went quiet. Not anger. Not hatred. Just a soft death of innocence. Because love can forgive many things, but the mind struggles when the image it protected is replaced by one it never asked to imagine. If you returned, I would hold you gently but I would be holding myself hostage. Smiling while negotiating with dignity. Loving while bleeding quietly. So I choose absence over erosion. Growth over explanation. Elevation over applause. I will not become rich to be seen. I will not heal to be reclaimed. I will rise so thoroughly that my peace no longer recognizes your name as something it must respond to. This is not bitterness. This is burial. I am laying to rest the version of me who thought love was proven by staying when it hurt. And when I love again, it will not be an idea. It will be a place where I am already enough.
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Jan 11
Jan 11, 2026 at 3:33 PM UTC
The Idea of Loving You
I did not love you as you were, I loved you as a promise. As a future that spoke softly to my wounds and told me I would finally be enough. I loved the idea of waking up chosen, of being looked at without measurement, without silent calculations of what I lacked or what another man might already have. When you left, you did not just leave me you shattered the mirror I used to see myself. And in the broken glass, I started mistaking absence for failure. They say money changes things. Maybe it does. But what it would have changed most is not your heart it is how loud I could have proven my worth to someone who never learned to wait while I was becoming. You touched another body, and something inside me went quiet. Not anger. Not hatred. Just a soft death of innocence. Because love can forgive many things, but the mind struggles when the image it protected is replaced by one it never asked to imagine. If you returned, I would hold you gently but I would be holding myself hostage. Smiling while negotiating with dignity. Loving while bleeding quietly. So I choose absence over erosion. Growth over explanation. Elevation over applause. I will not become rich to be seen. I will not heal to be reclaimed. I will rise so thoroughly that my peace no longer recognizes your name as something it must respond to. This is not bitterness. This is burial. I am laying to rest the version of me who thought love was proven by staying when it hurt. And when I love again, it will not be an idea. It will be a place where I am already enough.
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I used to run through the street But now Covid-19 is running through it I could call this afreet But this is a virus, not a demon in Arabian and Muslim mythology Here and there, you hear complains of fever, dry cough, and tiredness, that’s vexatious All we can do now is to kneel down to The Most High to work his miraculous I have faith he will hear our bloodcurdling screams as we’re frightened by this virus, it’s obnoxious This virus is nothing but infectious And it loves people with health complications like Aids on promiscuous When it comes to killing, this virus is second to nothing It can’t be compared to Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis Og, now you think of electrophotomicrographically? You being a logophile but this is a virus, not a terminology This virus doesn’t know the human value It throws them on deathbed like a coin of low value This is not a boffola either but a bobsy-die This virus is comminatory that doesn’t need comess If this was a person could be a super-star artist with his works in Albertopolis But this is a virus that is devastating and malicious Its complications increase with seniority, and that makes it amphibology It takes on the world in a circuitous thus why I call it anfractuous Covid-19 has world’s economy in ******* But soon The Highest will have this virus in the shellacking Until it collapses It’s about time it teetering Though the government thinks we’re gullible This why they told us they have it under control but it is still looming The medicine is still in its trial stage And it comes with debilitating side effects There is a possibility of another wave to come We have to adhere to doctors’ guidance before it hit us So let’s isolate To avoid incubation And self-quarantine Before Covid-19 finished our generation And practice social distance To save our nation
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Jun 5, 2021
Jun 5, 2021 at 5:19 PM UTC
TO THE MOST HIGH
I used to run through the street But now Covid-19 is running through it I could call this afreet But this is a virus, not a demon in Arabian and Muslim mythology Here and there, you hear complains of fever, dry cough, and tiredness, that’s vexatious All we can do now is to kneel down to The Most High to work his miraculous I have faith he will hear our bloodcurdling screams as we’re frightened by this virus, it’s obnoxious This virus is nothing but infectious And it loves people with health complications like Aids on promiscuous When it comes to killing, this virus is second to nothing It can’t be compared to Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis Og, now you think of electrophotomicrographically? You being a logophile but this is a virus, not a terminology This virus doesn’t know the human value It throws them on deathbed like a coin of low value This is not a boffola either but a bobsy-die This virus is comminatory that doesn’t need comess If this was a person could be a super-star artist with his works in Albertopolis But this is a virus that is devastating and malicious Its complications increase with seniority, and that makes it amphibology It takes on the world in a circuitous thus why I call it anfractuous Covid-19 has world’s economy in ******* But soon The Highest will have this virus in the shellacking Until it collapses It’s about time it teetering Though the government thinks we’re gullible This why they told us they have it under control but it is still looming The medicine is still in its trial stage And it comes with debilitating side effects There is a possibility of another wave to come We have to adhere to doctors’ guidance before it hit us So let’s isolate To avoid incubation And self-quarantine Before Covid-19 finished our generation And practice social distance To save our nation
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The dice is still rollin' and life is still going on so don't jump to a conclusion Don't make a permanent decision over a temporary emotion 'cause the dice is still rollin' and life still goes on
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Jul 23, 2020
Jul 23, 2020 at 4:05 PM UTC
THE ROLLING DICE
I looked at her from far and even though she was a stranger I went to her   and investigate what was going on her I noticed she was trembling in the fear and coldness I gave her my jacket and a hug for comfortness Tears started polling down her eyes as she was a foreigner to the world of affections Although the pain was too much for her she shared her story with me hopelessly her parents were all gone then her aunt and uncle took her in They insulted her day in and day out not only have they called her wild names but they have made her do weird things I can tell her heart was in great devastation My Gosh, if you can look at her even once and raise your mercy hand to her she hungry for peace and your kindness if you could let her smile even once
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May 2, 2020
May 2, 2020 at 1:14 PM UTC
Devastated
The world is at war fighting a bitter battle a no gun or bullet battle It's an unusual war that requires us all to kneel down kneel down and fight fight with a prayer and through quarantining   It attacks us like a whirlwind and the flight is out of necessity but fighting  is a necessity
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Mar 26, 2020
Mar 26, 2020 at 7:09 PM UTC
FIGHT OR FLIGHT
Protect your dream as the devil would come after it and block it from becoming reality
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Jun 30, 2019
Jun 30, 2019 at 6:15 PM UTC
PROTECT YOUR DREAM
Dear future wife , for now, I don't know you yet                    but yet          I know I will love you              and care for you                       Dear future wife   for now, I don't have you yet                     but yet          I know I will have you            and you will have me                 Dear future wife , for now, I don't have happiness  yet                     but yet I know I will have it and you will have it          when we become one           Dear future wife , for now, we haven't become one yet                    but not yet so let's become one once and for all          and be happy as one
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Jun 13, 2019
Jun 13, 2019 at 4:57 PM UTC
Faith
Forest shelters all good and bad so is life
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Jun 10, 2019
Jun 10, 2019 at 3:24 PM UTC
FOREST
Birds of feathers flock together also people of feets walk together so let's walk together and take lead to make world a better place to live
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Apr 24, 2019
Apr 24, 2019 at 3:52 PM UTC
LET'S TAKE LEAD
If you didn't come from rich family rich family must come from you
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Apr 24, 2019
Apr 24, 2019 at 3:40 PM UTC
RICH FAMILY